Firebird Superserver Manager

NormanDunbar

Introduction.

Fbmgr is used to start and stop your
Firebird Superserver. This is different from starting and stopping a
database - as explained in the gfix manual - as
the running databases rely on the Firebird service/daemon. This daemon is
the Firebird engine - without it, nothing will run
under Superserver.

Note

If you are using Firebird Classic, this chapter does not apply and
it is entirely possible that the executables mentioned in this chapter
may not even exist in your installation directory.

Note

If you are using Firebird 2.5 onwards, you will see a message
whenever you use fbmgr, telling you that
fbmgr has been deprecated. From Firebird 3.0
onwards, this utility will no longer be present in the Firebird
releases. You are advised to use the fbguard
utility instead. See the chapter on fbguard
for details.

On Windows systems, the engine runs as a service and is slightly
different. Windows will be discussed separately in this manual for that
reason.